Hi all, Can anyone help me solve a puzzle? There was more than one James BALL co-habiting/marrying, procreating, dying, etc., in the places that I'm interested in, namely parishes near to Kingsbridge during the years 1790-1841. Can someone please identify this James BALL:- 1818 Jul 23 James BALL a widower, married Amie(Amy, Amey, Emma) MAUNDER(S), a widow, at Dodbrooke. Both were OTP but I can't find any BALL children being baptised, nor a female BALL burial, in Dodbrooke for some years before this marriage.? Amy MAUNDER was born Amey CLARKE in Dodbrooke and was the widow of William MAUNDER of Dodbrooke(died 1813) whom she married in 1808. The couple had one child, Mary Clarke MAUNDER in Dodbrooke in 1810. James & Amy BALL(nee CLARKE) had two children in Salcombe, 1819 and 1821. This James BALL had died by 1841. There are two James BALL burials recorded in Malborough(including Salcombe residents)in the period 1821-1841:- James BALL of Salcombe, aged 69, buried 5 Jan 1836 James BALL of Higher Batson, aged 68, buried 25 Apr 1836 I have only one likely headstone inscript, from the Malborough parish churchyard:- James BALL, aged 68, 1 Feb 1836 And this one is located adjacent to other graves which I'm certain all belong to "my" BALL family - from my greatgrandma Elizabeth Mary BALL of Salcombe back through the James BALL, born 16 Jun 1767, who married Ruth JARVIS and begat children, continuously, from 1790 to 1807, with Ruth dying in 1829. Any ideas, please, on the mystery James BALL, a widower in 1818? Ray Osborn Rotorua, NZ